We try to be good
Paul Graham’s latest essay (“Be Good”) about how you should try to do what is good and this does not necessarily have to be the path to the largest short term gains, but probably is the path to the best thing for you, your company and your users in the longterm, sounds very logical to us.
As you may know, the Tipit.to service is free by default. We do not charge any money and only subtract a sufficient amount of money to recoup our transaction costs. Any savings we can negotiate on transactions will directly benefit our users (and an actual percentage of the current overhead is available on our FAQ page).
We make our money by soliciting a tip from users who cash out money from us. So if our tipjar owners do not get paid, we do not get paid. We think this is the best way to organize a system such as this and it keeps us motivated to make it easy for our users to give and especially to receive as much as possible.